Melting Ice

Melting Ice

Director: Devanshi Asher

In the cold deserted region of Ladakh in India, where the stark winters which is hard to survive for an Indian living in the tropical Indian heat. I got a chance to travel to Ladakh, meet the Indian Ice Hockey Team and experience the ice hockey season, which no one in India knows about. Thats where I met Sonam Chondol. Sonam chondol is a 21 year old ladakhi girl from the isolate village of Tar. She started her ice hockey journey 4 years ago in SECMOL, when she failed her 10th std board exams and the system tagged her as a failure. She was selected for the Indian Ice Hockey team in 2015 and 2016, when the team was participating in the IIHC championships in Malasiya and Taipei but she couldnt go because she didnt have a passport. This year when she got her passport, she couldnt make it through the team. Over the time, ice hockey has just become a hobby for her because coming from an economically tough background where the father is a seasonal carpenter and the mother is a homemaker and a farmer, there is a lot of pressure on her to become financially independent because the father has gone through a lot of tough time to educate 3 children and run a house.My film revolves around Sonam Chondol and her struggle to achieve her dreams.